All materials must be creative commons licensed including music, photographs, and other video. This is for your own protection. Great sources of music are the podsafe music network (you must attribute and hyperlink to the source) and the Owl Music Search under the creative commons website. The creative commons website and the WikiMedia Commons are also great sources of creative commons licensed materials. Remember, you must cite all sources of your materials.
Key Web Page Formats & Conventions for screen readability are: · Consistency of pages or site ·Maximum of four colours used with colour scheme repeated throughout the site for consistency · Use of ‘white space’ - space to rest the eyes ·Sans serif font for text ·Text is usually left aligned or centered for effect - whole paragraphs should not be centred if more than 6 lines ·Avoid italics; use different font sizes for headings and emphasis ·Avoid use of all capitals (this is shouting) and underscore (makes it hard to read) ·Dark colour for text (usually black) ·Avoid text on blue background ·Avoid red and green together for colour-blind people ·Short lines of 10-12 words (60 characters) ·Paragraphs are usually 4-8 lines in length ·Each page is not excessively long and is not wider than the screen ·Tables have been used appropriately to place page elements in position & improve the layout of the page ·First page should include a brief introduction which conveys the purpose of the project or site ·Have a clear navigational pathway ·Use graphics to enhance meaning
VELS Assessment
VELS assessment increases as we read down the columns (4.0 to 6.25)
ICT for Creating
ICT for Communicating
ICT for Visualising Thinkiing
Use online environments
Able to locate information quickly
Use SmartArt to plan in detail
Work Collaboratively
Experiment with format & design
Use ICT to show your thinking
Work legally and ethically
Good use of search engines
Present different drafts of work to demonstrate decisions made & problems solved
Ongoing improvement of work
Locate good tutorials & useful sites on internet
Organise & present issues & ideas
Use complex search strategies
Use complex search strategies
Show how you have learnt from mistakes
Share ideas online
Exchange ideas online
Use sound, stills & video to present reflections
Comply with formats & conventions
Be Ethical and legal
Use simulationjs
Meet Audience needs
Exchange ideas & opinions online with peers
Use complex ICT tools to visually present
Designs for a global audience
locate precise info from websites
Use complex ICT tools to explore
Gain online feedback for improvement
Use accepted protocols & communicate with experts & others
Use complex ICT tools to visualise thinking
Present detailed plans, timeline, resources & sequence of tasks
Give & take constructive feedback online
Use mobile technology
Effective use of sound, images, text using mobile technolgy
Criteria summary
Meets Audience needs Quality of final work - Publishing online
Ongoing improvement - seek feedback
Usefulness of online resources found - Searching for online Creativity - different, unusual Advancing your skills or doing this in a more complex Working collaboratively - all members contributed equally
Ms Casey's TIC19 class
Table of Contents
Helpful Software sites
Teacher Tube video tutorials: http://www.teachertub.com/
Flash - http://msit8.wikispaces.com/skills
Flash - http://msit.wikispaces.com/FlashTutorials
Qualitiy of information
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Creative Commons
All materials must be creative commons licensed including music, photographs, and other video. This is for your own protection. Great sources of music are the podsafe music network (you must attribute and hyperlink to the source) and the Owl Music Search under the creative commons website. The creative commons website and the WikiMedia Commons are also great sources of creative commons licensed materials. Remember, you must cite all sources of your materials.
Wiki spaces
Tutorials -http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction & http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#notify Wiki help - http://ghs2008.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Help
Format & Conventions
Key Web Page Formats & Conventions for screen readability are:
· Consistency of pages or site
· Maximum of four colours used with colour scheme repeated throughout the site for consistency
· Use of ‘white space’ - space to rest the eyes
· Sans serif font for text
· Text is usually left aligned or centered for effect - whole paragraphs should not be centred if more than 6 lines
· Avoid italics; use different font sizes for headings and emphasis
· Avoid use of all capitals (this is shouting) and underscore (makes it hard to read)
· Dark colour for text (usually black)
· Avoid text on blue background
· Avoid red and green together for colour-blind people
· Short lines of 10-12 words (60 characters)
· Paragraphs are usually 4-8 lines in length
· Each page is not excessively long and is not wider than the screen
· Tables have been used appropriately to place page elements in position & improve the layout of the page
· First page should include a brief introduction which conveys the purpose of the project or site
· Have a clear navigational pathway
· Use graphics to enhance meaning
VELS Assessment
VELS assessment increases as we read down the columns (4.0 to 6.25)
Criteria summary
Meets Audience needs
Quality of final work - Publishing online
Ongoing improvement - seek feedback
Usefulness of online resources found - Searching for online
Creativity - different, unusual
Advancing your skills or doing this in a more complex
Working collaboratively - all members contributed equally